s bloomingdale neighbor hhood bracing. sunday night, that street literally became a river. crews had to use a small boat to rescue a man from his car. flooding has become so common that some homeowners have spent thousands to keep the water out. >> when the water starts to overflow it comes into the sump pump here and gets pumped out. >> we put a back preventer in inside. >> the pipes in the area are too old and too small to handle the huge flow of water but they are looking into short-term solutions. >>> 4:31. time for a look at the forecast. flooding in the area. sprinkles this morning, too. >> sprinkles and full out showers in other areas. of course, that area around bloomingdale could get more heavy rain today. you've got kids going back to school in northern virginia. you've got traffic and now the weather, too. throughout the area, some rain is falling that i think is going to continue right into that 7:00, 8:00 hour. 76, the temperature. high dew point temperature right now at 72 degrees to go along with that air temperature. you can see there we've got gaithersburg